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Malden council enrolls charter-related ordinances, directs home-rule petition drafting for departmental reorganization
Summary
The council voted unanimously to enroll multiple ordinances that move sections of the city charter into city code pending a home-rule petition; it also approved reorganizing health, human services and inspectional functions and asked the city solicitor to draft the home-rule petition deleting specified charter sections.
The Malden City Council on March 11 voted to enroll a package of ordinance changes that would move several operational provisions out of the city charter and into the municipal code and directed the city solicitor to draft a home-rule petition for the charter deletions required by the reorganization.
The measures are intended to reorganize city functions, including a new Health and Human Services director role, consolidation of inspectional personnel under an inspectional-services director, and a codified veteran service coordinator position. Councilors said the changes are meant to modernize long-standing charter language and give the city more…
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